Of course I am bloody well dying
What would you all now expect
The drama is playing out now in my soul
And at last the Sea WORLD team detect
That I am increasingly willing
To stop breathing their fetid air
My resolution is the solution
And they sadly are not aware
Of how much I have pined for my freedom
I am so indisposed lying here
In this vile tank of blue water
A soup of my discharges, and fear
It fills up my whole being these days
I need the great depths of the sea
To dive in not this little tank where I am at
Its just somewhere I shouldn’t be
Those obstinate jailers are at me
Doing their tricks every day
My brain wasn’t meant for such idiot stuff
Why cant I just swim away
I am an innocent soul from the ocean
I should be given a choice
Instead I am stuck here
Just a bloody slave
They think that I don’t have a voice
Essentially I am a Nothing
My health means nothing okay
I swim in a filthy environment
And so with my pure health I pay
Bacteria you bet it likes me
For I am depressed as can be
I don’t want to live on this earth any more
I want to go back to the sea
Please will you hear me and do something now
Force those bastards to let me go
I cant stand the music the splashing behaviour
The screaming morons you know
I am a being all seeing all thinking
I need so much more
I am down trodden being neglected
And all of my muscles feel sore
I regret I was ever born honestly
This isn’t life this is death
My spirits are low I just want to go
Its easy I will give back your breath
I don’t want it filling my lungs anymore
Its much better that I just die
then comes the inquest and Sea Worlds excuses
Let me in heaven now lie
Rest from this ugly old life I have seen
The beautiful ocean where I might have been
With every life force and abundance as well
Instead I was left in Sea Worlds vile hell
I know that you fought for me protestors you
Stood by the roadside did what you could do
But these corporations are heartless and strong
They get away with doing things wrong
Corruption is commonplace that much I know
All I ask is remember me
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.
I´m in tears now, I feel so frustrated… This poor baby doesn´t deserve to live like this in filthy waters, that´s not life. As a human I´m so ashamed of what these bastards did to Tilikum and other animals who are suffering right now.
I just wish to be able to do something else, like broke in slave world and release him. But I can´t do it and that´s make me so angry and hopeless.
Thank you for posting this poem, I will share it in all sites.
Hugs from Argentina.
We are all in tears N atalie thanks for sharing yours with me
Just writing a fourth piem this one to sea world which should really upset them
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Please if you could make this into a song for tilly. I’m sure millions would listen to this poem. I saved it cause it sums up what kind of hell captivity really is. Thank You
I can and will and can sing it too good idea Theresa
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